Devulapalli Venkateswara Rao, a prominant communist leader was born in 1917 in Chandupatla village, Present Suryapet District. He came into contact with Indian nationalism and joined reformist movements. He was one of the earliest to go underground to build the people’s movement in Telangana. He established Communist Party in rural areas recruiting the AMS workers. He published a number of booklets on Vetti and atrocities of Doras on people. He has taken militant stand within the Andhra Maha Sabha paving the way for armed struggle. He strongly advocated that Telangana people’s movement against feudal oppression began much earlier than usually believed to have begun in 1946. Shaik Bandagi struggle would point to the people’s upsurge. Bandagi’s share of his land was challenged by his brother (Abbas Ali) who was a supporter of Visunuru Ramachandra Reddy (Visunuru Deshmukh). When the matter went to the court Bandagi won the case. It was felt that this was the defeat of Visunuru Deshmukh as he encouraged his brother Abbas Ali, therefore, he became restless. Visunuru Deshmukh’s goondas killed Bandagi. This incident angered the people of the surrounding villages. The villagers participated in building a memorial for him and Bandagi became a symbol of people’s struggle and the people’s movement grew stronger in the villages. In those days, the landlords were actively evicting small peasants and taking over their lands to give them to new tenants at a higher rent. The sanghams became active to resist this. A notorious Deshmukh like Visunuru Ramachandra Reddy tried to forcibly take over the land of a washerwoman, Ilamma. This was resisted effectively by the Sangham. Ramachandra Reddy showed his revolutionary attitude during his student career itself. During his student days in Osmania University, he used to participate in the political activities of Andhra Maha Sabha, State Congress and Arya Samaj. When the Nizam government forcibly collected the taxes and the doras seized the crops, he resisted such attempts. He organised attacks on the rice mills, looted food grains at Bhuvanagiri, Mundrai, Jangao and distributed food grains to the needy. He was thus instrumental in organising the Sanghams around Kadivendi and Palakurti. Baddam Yellareddy was one of the earliest nationalist leaders who participated in salt satyagraha in 1930. He had taken up Harijan upliftment programme in Hyderabad. Later, he became a prominent communist leader and worked in the Telangana Armed Struggle. Bheemireddy Narasimha reddy was influenced by the leftist ideology and became a communist. He organised anti-vetti struggles against the landlords and government officials. He worked as an underground activist and became a leader of dalam. Bommagani Dharmabiksham joined the political activity as a student. He established a hostel in Suryapet for the poorer children. He later became a prominent communist leader in Nalgonda district.